skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be! I share the same emotional feeling as well, but the ones telling others to have kids, already have them. They keep going above and beyond trying to portray the idea of “everything is amazing when you have a kid!”, when it’s objectively not true. It’s just a bit off-putting when you have all the information readily available and try to push an ideology to a circle that’s commonly known as skeptics. Anyone who has close girl friends in their late 20s/30s have heard the issues they’re facing and why they’re not having kids either. But then, bunch of seemingly smart people, just keep yelling “just have children!!!” looks a bit dumb. And from the guy’s side we have different sets of problems.

A bit personal, but throughout my life, I’ve met more dead-beat fathers than caring ones. So, I’m incredibly jaded when it comes to giving advice. Statistically, I wouldn’t try to change one’s mind to have a child, because I’d feel bad for the kid if things go south.

Once again, I’m still pro-having kids, but I don’t get why it became such a major discourse compared to 2010s.
I completely agree with this advice. Micro-benchmarking can work well as long as you already have an understanding of what's happening behind the scenes. Without that it greatly increases the chance that you'll get information unrelated to how your code would perform in the real world. Even worse, I've found a lot of the performance micro-benchmarking websites can actually induce performance issues. Here's an example of a recent performance bug that appears to have been entirely driven by the website's harness. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283118
Forbes Fires Freelancers over Google's Site Reputation Abuse Policy
If you make a little effort it gets easier once you hit 50s or 60s. People in their 30s and 40s are very busy with family and work. This changes once kids are gone and people near or have reached retirement.
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The other thing that happens is that they (both genders) are sold into begging rings
That depends, as the comment you replied to shows, on how they respond to that. I'm an atheist, but one of my wife's best friends is a dyed-in-the wool catholic, and we get on really well despite that fundamental difference. He has a great line in self-deprecating humour, where he talked about "going Taliban" during lent, of which he is very observant. Not all religious people - and, I would suggest, probably very few in fact - are nutters. They're just the loudest ones.
Local library. Recreation centers. Local board game shops. Events and activities in the community. Volunteering. Religious groups. College campuses often host groups and events from the community. Art classes. Dance classes.

Check the local newspaper as they often list events and activities.
Is the Oregon health department doing the same thing? What explains their similar outcomes?

Activism masquerading as reporting is never a good look.
Yes and once they have destroyed the competition, then they start charging.
It hard to cook without knowing the temperature, it’s not that hard to code without syntax highlighting.

In your examples white on smoke white text would be the better analogy
TBH, I thought this was a pretty empty article. It seemed to rehash things that I believe most people are aware of regarding the difficulty of making friends once you hit adulthood. Thus, I'll add one piece of advice that I didn't see mentioned in the article or the comments.

Beyond just having unstructured time together, I think I made some of my best friends when I was in a group that had a common goal, and we had to work together to achieve that goal. While the common goal actually isn't the most important factor in making friends, I think it provides the framework that makes the "unstructured" time so much more natural, easy, and regular. E.g. joining a sports team provides the framework of regular practice, but then you can make great friends getting something to eat after. Or in a community theater group, the rehearsals provides the structure, but it's all the downtime where you really get to build friendships.

I mention this because I so often here the advice of "join a group of other people with shared interests", and while that's true, I've found that is it's too "laissez faire", then the normal pressures of adult life can often get in the way, and it's harder to connect. E.g. a book club is nice, but when you get really busy it's easy to just bail and not feel as connected to the folks in the club.
I agree about skill. It’s just easier with religious groups.
Yes and no, if you join a group that is not overzealous you can just skip the religion talk altogether and involve with community projects instead.
The world of Wall-e is not too far away
What a brilliant observation.

Has anything else been written online about proactive vs. reactive identities, and particularly - how this has changed historically. Could it have been the case that prior to television, generations (for example "The Greatest Generation") grew up with a proactive identity culture, due to having a more proactively social culture?
you have friends?
If you thought that was confusing, you’ll definitely want to skip C++ too!
On any thread where the topic of various "collectibles" that surely someone wants comes up, there are tons of people who are "you can't just toss it" but somehow thy never want to take them off your hands themselves.

I totally understand the impulse but it's just not realistic to preserve everything.
The author of the article? Doesn't sound like she is trying to make friends. Comes off as an assignment where she polled a bunch of people and added some text around their replies.
Incredibly well-written. Not all of his opinions stood the test of time, but a pleasure to read nonetheless.
haha, I probably just had a gut reaction instead of receiving the intent. whoops. I was mainly just thinking back to when I was trying to understand where the line is between things like qemu and kvm and xen and finding that it is a blurrier distinction than I had realized.
I don't think paying people tens-of-millions of dollars in salary is good public policy. he didn't contribute anywhere near that amount of value to the company. If CEOs want to make this kind of money it had better be tied to results only. what kind of logic is "paid if you succeed, paid if you fail" ?
When I use a tool like this one of the most important things is that it works offline so I can read something in a plane or on the go.

I've looked into most of these (and instapaper, pocket, etc) and ultimately found Wallabag to be the best. However, their app is quite buggy and site is fairly clunky for my taste. Luckily there's a pretty recent 3rd party client that works offline super well and is on Mac/Linux/android/iOS for free (yay flutter) https://github.com/casimir/frigoligo

Also, I'll note that it's basically a must to use the browser extension with the option to download via what the browser sees if you get content from a lot of sites. That being said the devs are super responsive to reports that sites aren't being scraped appropriately.

My biggest wish is that they supported YouTube (at least titles) and they had a way to indicate when a article needs to be scraped client side.
There is zero chance AlphaGo devs forgot about discounting. Usually you relax the discount to allow for optimal play, most likely the fitness function flailed a bit in the long tail.
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet
Children's Belief in Santa Claus and Moral Behavior: Two-Wave Longitudinal Study
your fallacy is: reductio ad hitlerum
MartyPC: An IBM PC/XT Emulator Written in Rust
> And sure, it’s possible this stuff is real. But when there’s no conclusive demonstration of it after thousands of years, the burden of proof is firmly on the people who think it’s real, and it is definitely not the job of the rest of us to take this stuff seriously.

Yeah, I've got a simple way to test this:

Go win the powerball lottery using whatever techniques you believe in. Then, even if nobody believes you, you have the proof in your wallet.
> It's controversial because of how he makes fun about the people using and promoting other languages, like Rust. I thought it was hilarious.

But doesn't that completely ruin the point of the post? I agree with you that something feeling 'fun' is more personal, and that the criteria of what constitutes fun are up to the user. The author doesn't agree with that - you can either adopt the former point or promote the Right Way of having fun. Those snarky remarks made me put this blog into the second category. When you're so invested in your argument, even a fundamentally harmless post about having fun will get that language wars hit piece subtext.

If anything, they seem more like desperate cheap shots than arguments. Other people, the NSA etc dislike unsafe-by-default code? Well, they're just authoritarian anti-fun ideologues! Rust users bring up some of the same criticisms I recall in the last paragraph? Well.. uh... that borrow checker, am I right?
What's Your Least Favourite Programming Language? (Computerphile) [video]
Building a Better Social Web
I notice that as we grow older patience in growing a friendship is less, usually at at adult change we look for a perfect person or someone with way less difference in tastes.
I don’t think this is the right analysis. One should generally expect a positive return over time from investing in equities: you are giving up money now and taking on risk, and you are compensated for it by the return on investment. The word ‘speculating’ is generally referring to a different kind of activity from the kind of investing a typical person gets through paying into a pension. I don’t want to make claims about what typical people are doing with brokerage accounts, and the structure of brokerages seems to have changed enough that it’s perhaps harder to describe long term trends or the lives of ‘typical’ customers.
Yep. The array index pattern is unsafe code without the unsafe keyword. Amazing how much trouble Rust people go through to make code "safe" only to undermine this safety by emulating unsafe code with safe code.
In Japan it's not unheard of for chief executives to take pay cuts when their plans don't work out. If there are bonuses in good times, would it not incentivize executives to perform better if there was also docked pay and executive layoffs in bad times?

I know some of you might think no known executive would take that job, and I actually know first hand that's largely true. I also know some that definitely would, but that's besides the point. As an investor, you don't want to hire those c-suites that are allergic to accountability.
> I disagree, I think they are bad business.

Your personal experience not withstanding: Nordstroms most recent financial statements indicates that they pulled in ~$150mm on $15b in sales for the past few years. That seems like a pretty healthy business to me.
> we find that poverty is still 3 percentage points higher in treated counties 10 years after the Walmart opening.

So... 10 years after Walmart opens, poverty is 3% higher, and annual household earnings decline by $4,230. Is this a huge effect? This is something like a 10 point difference on the SAT (https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/DIReadingSeminar/Papers/DixonR...).
I think that kind of misses the point. Sure, of course plenty of atheists find meaning in life and social groups to join.

Point being, in a religious environment you don't have to have skill - the meaning in life and social groups are automatic and baked in. That's not the case for atheists so it's easier to get "left behind" if you happen to be "unskilled", as you put it.
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This is the real problem IMO. I live in a very religiously conservative country with pretty strict gender roles in marriages. Having lived in the West before, I definitely see a lot less dysfunction or mental health issues here, at least from my peers. But there's also a lot of collectivism here - village to raise a child sort of thing and most people live in joint families.

The human being is still adapting to a very new and very foreign reality.
What's the advantage over ente.io or immich?
Frankly, I don’t buy the malaises argument. It obviously has some effect, but even the countries that are known for not being lonely has dropping fertility rates. And there’s almost no good argument for having more than 2 kids, which is basically a requirement for increasing population.

People just have more stuff to do, and convincing a woman they should sacrifice at the bare minimum 6 years to give birth to 3 kids is just… yeah, good luck. The only argument is “do it for the greater good!”, and as a society, we have shown that most people don’t care about the greater good the second times become a bit hard.

Some tech circles have been entertaining the whole “trad life” idea, but it’s pretty laughable the second you start talking to real people. Not all women want to be depended on others if they have a choice.
Depends on the sport. I used to play pickup basketball. Whereas I recognized the players week to week, I never knew any of them. I only accidentally ran into one of them outside the game once. BTW, I loved the game and remember the players well. They just weren't friends.

Then I sailed, crewed raceboats. I got to know many people quite well. There's a lot of social coordination and communication in sailing. Just sitting on the rail on an upwind beat is a conversation, the same conversation every time but like chicken soup for the soul. Also a good crew is lot like a startup. Not easy to break into but worth it.
Because it's not only extremely fulfilling (well beyond what one might expect) on a personal level but also required on a social level for a culture to persist.

And this is in the context of ever more people complaining of loneliness, lack of fulfillment/meaning, and more. These issues are almost certainly causally related.

Help yourself, help society, and even have a voice (of sorts) in the future of humanity.
> What other countries do with their trees is not my problem.

You may mean that what you don't want to worry about it, which is a reasonable position as you can't worry about everything, but it certainly is your problem in the sense that it affects you; it's not like the effects of deforestation respect national borders.
Love seeing old CRTs like this preserved.

I am not a CRT collector, but as a NES dev I keep a small 13" around and use it reqularly for dev purposes and for showing off my games at conventions. 13" is the perfect size in my opinion. Does not take up too much space and is easy to lug around to shows.

I fear the day that mine dies because small 13" models in good condition are getting harder to find for a decent price. Seems like some people caught on and are selling them on FB Marketplace for high prices and advertising them as "Retro Gaming TVs".
The same thing basically happened with Malcolm Forbes' collections. It's perfectly normal for heirs to just not value things you've collected in the same way you did.
Must be something in the air: From yesterday, 275 comments.

"One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488263
Poverty often comes with crime and other problems. I don't think anyone likes that in their neighbourhood.
> At the time I guessed that he was much smarter than me — that it would take me years to become as investment-savvy as this guy was.

You lucked out by mistakingly believing he was intelligent. The classic scenario is when your neighbor is obviously an idiot, making tremendous amounts of money in the market, and you have to explain to your spouse why you can't/won't emulate them. That's when even bright, (normally) level-headed people start piling in before the bubble bursts.
Those tweets would typically be demoted instead of promoted.
Get a dog, show up regularly to the local dog park. You will quickly meet people.
Great. A useful approximation of what really happens in the fluid. But I'm sure there are no shocks and rarefactions in physicists' neurons while they are thinking about it.

Switching into a less facetious mode...

Do you understand that in context of this dialogue it's not enough to show some examples of discontinuous or otherwise unrepresentable by NNs functions? You need at least to give a hint why such functions cannot be avoided while approximating functionality of the human brain.

Many things are possible, but I'm not going to keep my mind open to a possibility of a teal Russell's teapot before I get a hint at its existence, so to speak.
Using creative new methods, they find that the costs Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher unemployment in the wider community outweigh the savings it provides for shoppers.

> This consolidation is the root cause
here's a nickel, get a new browser.

no idea why i even go for bait like this. because i like doing unpaid support work i guess. i tested in firefox and chrome. both work fine and don't do it like op decribes - no keybinds, keys behave normal.

maybe one of the dudes from yesterdays thread that had his own chatgpt programmed browser extensions installed that break the web for him.
I couldn't understand why you were talking about this, I actually thought your account was hacked, but I see now all the photos in the article are provided by them. Clicked through and spent some time there, an interesting community, it seems like people's random "decent enough" photos, kinda a good idea imo. If I want random stock these days I typically use AI, but this would save me having to think up a prompt and then do 15 minutes of prompt engineering. I like it!
maybe this is a projection, but it always seems like the people struggling to make new friends also tend to never put themselves in the bare minimum situation to be able to make said friends. i personally rarely go outside outside of anything related to work. maybe for others it is the same?
It's not!

You just need a shared interest or objective in as close to 'real life' as you can get it, and you need to dedicate time to it that you would otherwise give to TV and doom-scrolling.

Gamers make real friends. Open source enthusiasts can make real friends. Music fans can make real friends (though your local scene is considerably better for this).

It does take management and maintenance, and if you're a single person then covid lockdowns will have broken many ties; I am definitely a more insular person than I was before.

But stop wasting your time watching TV, make a plan to make your social media more focussed on local activities and less focussed on personal drama, and try to be part of something a bit bigger than yourself. Get a dog, maybe.
"There's plenty of room at the bottom."[0]

0. http://researchgroups.pku.edu.cn/_resources/group1/M00/00/0D...
Thanks, I'll take a look and see if that helps.
I grew up in the poorest county in my state. It was an hour to anywhere. There were no bookstores, no movie theaters, no fast food restaurants, nothing but cows for miles. There wasn't even a public library.

It might be true that in an area with established retail, Walmart tends to put those businesses out of business. But in areas like my hometown, those businesses were already out of business. We used to have a little Sears store. It had a few things in stock, but mostly it was a place you could walk into, peruse the Sears catalog, and order with free shipping. It went out of business years before Walmart got to town. There was, at some point, a small department store as well. It had been boarded up in the 1970s.

Literally the only businesses in town that survived through the 1980s were the feed store, the gas station, the pharmacy, and an independent grocery store. The grocery store went out of business when Food Lion came to town, and nobody cried because Food Lion had a much wider selection of food products.

I think Walmart is a very mixed bag. But we aren't poorer because of Walmart.
vi is not a must-know...stop forcing your darling onto others, we have enough of your fandom here already
Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Form Generator (Instant Forms from a Prompt)
Hi HN,
I was an officer in a student organization and found myself constantly creating forms and surveys for events, signups, and feedback. It was a pain setting up questions, making sure the form was structured correctly, then generating links, and sometimes QR codes for offline sharing. So, I built an AI-powered form generator that creates entire forms (with short links and QR codes) based on a simple prompt or description.
Right now, the product can:
* Generate a complete form or survey from a short prompt.
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I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think. Feedback—especially from early adopters—is super valuable. Any bug reports, feature requests, or general comments would help me shape the product as it grows.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you find it useful! Feel free to ask any questions or share your thoughts. Thank you
With websites and social media accounts being simple to create, just search google and instagram for “<x thing you’re interested in> club/meetup/group”. Lots of small groups make one for this purpose. It’s worked for me!
It's very basic and not a general solution because the lifetimes of objects are now set equal. And there's no compaction, so from a space perspective it is worse than a heap where the space of deleted objects can be filled up by new objects. It is nice though that you can delete an entire class of objects in one operation. I have used this type of memory management in the context of web requests, where the space could be freed when the request was done.
Sure, but as OP said, consumers are short sighted. Communal issues will always be secondary to immediate personal issues.
Is there an official upgrade path available between versions, or do they currently break things without providing migration?